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chupasauruson MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

> showing that they extracted binaries from the distribution

Funnily enough, such action is outside of their paid product's EULA.

chupasauruson Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

Ubuntu is as good as Debian Sid for cutting edge (not really), PPAs work in both.

chupasauruson Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023)

1,2) NIH syndrome 3) We don't know 4) Expropriation isn't "basically stolen", Telegram was a tiny side project at the time

chupasauruson Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account

> My jobs VPN only runs on Ubuntu. There is code in there that checks your OS.

You can fake the data via eBPF.

> But that's for now and needs me spending time fighting them.

As with anything else.

> sssd is starting some light GPO enforcement on my laptop.

Could be avoided via namespaces.

> systemd slowly moves ...

Could be thrown out of the system, unless you're happy RH user.

> Android is also theoretically multi distro

That is out of scope because I'm fine without it's HAL and other parts.

> Facebook

Sad state of affairs, their mobile version worked fine even in lynx.

chupasauruson SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3

ProxyJump was implemented a decade ago to replace that specific string.

chupasauruson Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

> middle-class Russians from Moscow and St. Petersburg

2 prevalent groups of which are retired and people who moved there to make their ends meet, which will be complete around the retirement age.

> Yes, it is hard to change anything in a dictatorship. I know that from personal experience.

How many changes you did under dictators with actual armies, spy networks, chemical and nuclear weapons?

chupasauruson KDE is now my favorite desktop

There are 4 (or 5?) volume control UIs in Windows 11.

chupasauruson KDE is now my favorite desktop

Hello, KDE's Advanced Text Editor /s

(just a text editor is KWrite)

chupasauruson KDE launches its own distribution

Ubuntu and Debian have the same maintainers for KDE and nearly identical packages so bugs are shared.

chupasauruson KDE launches its own distribution

> find Debian Testing good enough for latest KDE Plasma

Latest as in "lagging for weeks while people in Ubuntu eat the bugs".

chupasauruson KDE launches its own distribution

Fedora is a side gig for GNOME maintainers, same as Neon for KDE (:

chupasauruson Lord of the Io_uring (2020)

The latter can easily propagate to the former if seccomp/AppArmor/MAC isn't set properly.

chupasauruson I Don't Have Spotify

You can brag about a successful crack of the DRM but refuse to prove it if you leave no traces downloading the rip.

chupasauruson It is worth it to buy the fast CPU

You could buy a SSD with SLC cache that is bigger than in 2011 pure SLC one, and probably cheaper.

chupasauruson VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams

There is no complexity in Elastic stack, only expensive footguns /s

chupasauruson When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army

Guess who cooperates with any security conferences in Russia that aren't abysmal and how many smart hackers attend those.

The world hasn't changed.

chupasauruson When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army

The summer is a "dead" season for that specific reason.

chupasauruson Debian 13 “Trixie”

It was announced in 2015 with apt 1.1 which was a major change of configuration, different things from it are being enforced each release since.

chupasauruson Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi

> I for one enjoyed reading it!

I gave a quick look and was surprised to see that the most of the first two paragraphs simply aren't there. I guess you've read something else!

As for machine translation: currently it isn't remotely ready to deal with literature by itself, but it could be handy to assist translators.

chupasauruson Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app

Such safety @ much wow.

chupasauruson Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA

My guess is the same reason as with SteamOS: not relying on a single party.

chupasauruson The Italian towns selling houses for €1

Golden wires in $1 house sounds about right.

chupasauruson In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month

The only thing that turns in this conversation is Earth and solar output in December would slightly differ.

chupasauruson Firefox 120 to Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks

Browsers aren't the only software that could be broken by auto updates on Linux and you can set up exactly the same behavior in at least APT's unattended-upgrades (dunno about RPM).

chupasauruson Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)

Military is still a part of the government.

chupasauruson Ubuntu: Introducing Debcrafters

Here[1][2] are some info of how it works in Debian.

[1] https://www.debian.org/devel/join/#contributing

[2] https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

chupasauruson Ubuntu: Introducing Debcrafters

> Debian starting to get second-hand packaging that goes to Ubuntu first, etc., even accidentally.

A notorious number of maintaining teams are the same for both distros and there hasn't been a problem I could think of.

> And takes some of the edge off of Ubuntu getting so much mileage out of Debian effort

And if you look on those teams' Debian QA pages you'll see that Sid isn't the upstream, this "mileage" has worked both ways for many years, for example Plasma 5 and 6 updates started in Unstable after they were deployed and ate most of the bugs in Ubuntu.

> I'll still continue to be all about Debian Stable

Which is the reason you probably don't know about the above since all of that work is to get updates into Testing.

chupasauruson Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)

There is a hardened version of Win7 for sensitive machines, probably made of source code Microsoft provided. Edit: Since I had to deal with it in 2011 there's at least Win8.1 version.

chupasauruson Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)

> Western governments use hacking for intelligence gathering not economic warfare

How much intelligence Stuxnet has gathered?

chupasauruson It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine)

> identifying valuable metrics and carving up heartbeats and baselines for them

The first problem is out of reach for LLMs, the other 2 are trivial with convolutional NNs for a long time.

> extensive dev environments to validate changes, and change controls to ensure you don’t torch production

Are out of scope for observability.